The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-29
LOCAL AND GENERAL.


a number OF the sailors from the Van
dalia We're ashore yesterday afternoon.
The brigantine Consuelo brought 25-
hogs from San Francisco on Saturday.
Mr., Parker n Alakee, of Waihee, IS reg
! istered at the Hawaiian Hotel.
Miss LEveque, an artist. was a passen-
ger by the Consuelo.
The band will give three new selections
at Emma Square this evening.
H B. ". s. Wild Swan sailed on Satur-
day morning for British Columbia
The Y. NJ. c. A bookkeeping class viii
meet this evening at o'clock.
Mrs. Henry Turton came to town on
Saturday by the Kinau.
purse containing papers of no value
but to the owner is advertised as lost.
Mr.. Lishman has resumed work on the
two bays of the new st. Andrew s Cattle
dral.
The House of Commons has rejected the
bill providing for the construction of the
English Channel Tunnel.
In the matter of the bankruptcy of f. A.
Pierce, five claims, amounting to 1923 II.
have been proved. The assets are -?
The steamer c. r. Bishop sails for War
amaze and Waialua at o'clock this morn
ing.
The Post Office dispatched by the Royal
Mail steamer Alameda on Saturday, 4 ,468
letters and ,252 packages of papers, -
Three hundred shares of Hawaiian Com
mercial Company stock were sold in San
Franc isco August 18th at 81 So
The road in front OF King Bros. store is /
blocked up with soil. and it is almost i'm
possible for carriages to get past.
Messrs. e. P. Adams & Co. will sell the
household furniture at the residence of J. /
Neal, Nuuanu street, at 10 o'clock this |
morning.
The Likelike brought the news that one
day last week at Hama, Maui, native .
while in an intoxicated condition, fell{
down a cliff and was killed
There were quite noisy lot of young
men on the veranda of the Y. NJ. C. A.
last evening about 9 o'clock. Some of
them blocked up the sidewalk.
Pureser Geo. G. Beckley, of the steamer
Kinau, and Joseph Nawahi Will run on the
ticket for Representatives
'or Hlo. +
Business was very dull in the Police
court on Saturday. Keani had to pay the
Usual $6 for drunkenness, and judgment
vas given in a continued civil suit
The bellows of the ST. Andrews Cathe-
lral organ are being repaired, and the in
trument will be heard again once more at Il
lext Sundays services. fsa
The Rev Alex Macintosh requests /
hat the young lady collectors for the ?
uilding fund of st. Andrews Cathedral j
7ill hand in their returns before Wednes-8 !
ay morning. t
The weekly P. G. ADVERTISER will be out i
o-day. 1t contains the report of the ban ,
uet, Samoan affairs and other interesting :
natter, and is a good number to send
broad.
Last Saturday morning boxing exhibit ;
on took place at the H. B. c. boathouse .
etween Jack Aud and and local aspir-
Mt for fame. The latter got decidedly the a
orst of 1t.
The store of Ignatio Aplague was burned
own at Puehuehu, Kohala, last Friday. + T
he family who slept in a room at the |r
ear of the store, narrowly escaped with :
leir lives.
A public meeting of the electors of Ward !
will be held at the Reformatory School i
evening at o'clock. The can
do tas for rorroSa,,+at for +bi, et,;o4 @
i'll probably address the meeting. o
The most attractive place in town for h
e ladies is likely to be Mr.. Chas J. Ii
shel's store, for by the Australia he has
ceived fine line of the latest styles in
dies untrlmmed hats, tips, etc.
A young American lady made her APP a
arance on Saturday afternoon among u
e shootists at the rifle range at the foot II
Punchbowl, and distinguished herself d.
scoring 80 points out of possible 50. fe
The sailor Hurd, of H. B. NJ. S. Con &C
lest, who was shot at the range the other q
y, died at the Queens Hospital at half fe
st 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. His
neral takes place to-day.
A Chinaman, an inmate of the Insane
y iOAli, attempted SuACIuS Dy udIgIlS
mself on Saturday He was discovered
time by keeper, who cut the rope and
we'd his life. -
The Captain of the schooner Mary, Id
lich arrived last Saturday from Kauai, W
'uck one of his men on the forehead with Al
iron bolt during the day, near the Fish de
arket, and made very deep cash.
Mr. w. o. Faulkner is taking advantage Sd
the moonlight nights and making some &C
cessary repairs needed to the electric
hit engine. 1t is all to pieces at the
esent time, but in few days will be in
rking order. be
The Royal Mail steamer Alameda sailed Ba
San Francisco few minutes after Ell
lock Saturday morning, taking from N,
; port twenty-one cabin and fifteen Ov